06.24.2008, 07:57 PM | #1241 |
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Just bought it today. Haven't started it yet.
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06.24.2008, 07:58 PM | #1242 |
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My interest in the Casino Royale movie sent me back to re-read the book. So far the movie's better.
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why do you hate him? he's got an awesome ear and a way to put pictures in my head that's just extraordinary. |
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06.24.2008, 08:03 PM | #1245 |
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That doesn't hurt. But honestly everything about the movie is far better--plot, dialog, pacing, even characterization. The book is dull by comparison.
What's great about the movie is you could take Bond out of it & it would still work.
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well they are shit books with terrible prose. what did you expect? |
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yeh, i'd forgotten. i read them as an impressionable pre-teen.
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06.24.2008, 08:10 PM | #1248 |
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oh yeah also this
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06.24.2008, 08:18 PM | #1249 |
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I'm reading Mickey Spillane's Return of the Hood. Thought it would be Chandleresque, but it's not .
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About the same, 5 months or so, but all I've read in the past two is 10 pages. Only 90 to go though. I'll finish it this week, I've decided that I should. After that it's Portrait of the Artist as a young man and Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. at the same time.
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06.25.2008, 09:22 AM | #1251 |
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Robert Anton Wilson - NATURAL LAW (don;t put a rubber on your willie)
Robert Anton Wilson - QUANTUM PSYCHOLOGY
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06.25.2008, 10:59 AM | #1252 |
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06.25.2008, 11:05 AM | #1253 | |
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hey, pendelho, welcome back. good picks there. ignore the last 1/2 of the birth of tragedy where all he does is kiss wagner's ass. or when you're done, instead, read nietzsche contra wagner. he insults him-- call him an "actor". can you think of anything worse to say to a man? |
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thanks on both counts.
well, now to be fair, mr. nietzsche was just pissed he didn't get mrs. wagner...
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we are all "actors" that is a charge that can be levelled at every single living and dead human being.
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no, tom stoppard writes that "actors are the opposite of people."
of course "all the world's a stage" implies that we are all actors. the only logical conclusion can be that there are no people.
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if everyone has a facade, a mask they wear in the world outside, a mask that, however it is similar to their perceived "true" self still is a mask, then we are all actors.
george peppard said "I love it when a plan comes together"
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shut up already.
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Sounds like you've been reading Camus, or maybe Shakespeare. My head has been in these lately: Kierkegaard - Either/Or Part II St. Augustine - Confessions Thich Nhat Hanh - Understanding Our Mind Hey, I've realized I've lost my Songs of Innocence (Blake), leaving me only with Songs of Experience. Feels appropriate. |
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